Classic Drama (pre-1945)

A waspish city comedy attacking the vices of hypocrisy, greed, self-indulgence and social pretension.

The macabre Jacobean tragedy, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A classic of German expressionism by an active revolutionary who was also an accomplished poet and playwright.

Schiller's grand historical tragedy, a battle of wits between Mary Queen of Scots and her captor, Queen Elizabeth I.

A classic 19th-century French farce, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Nicholas Wright's sensitive version of Ibsen's late play, about a family brought low by the disgrace and imprisonment of its patriarch.

Pirandello's ingenious detective story about a young woman who is hounded by the press after the death of a child in her care..

Ibsen's study of the corrosive effects of a guilty conscience. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Molière's satire of intellectual snobbery, in a translation first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A masterly satire of London society at the turn of the 17th century, abounding with Middleton's craft and wit.

The political tragedy of a King who indulges his passion and renounces his duties, and ultimately pays the price for forsaking his country.

Chekhov's classic tragicomedy, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.